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Warning to Twitter aimed at 'securing internet' in India: Govt sources

The sources said Twitter has repeatedly violated directions issued under the IT Act

Twitter India gets 'one last chance' to comply with Centre's new IT rules

MeitY's notice to Twitter came after the company's "repeated failures to act on the content take-down notices sent under Section 69 A of the IT Act"

Blockchain startup Newrl eyes 10% tokenisation market share by 2023

A public blockchain for decentralised finance, Newrl has developed tokenisation-based equity solutions for unlisted companies offering ESOPs

Self-regulation by social media companies a positive step: Legal experts

'Tactical move by govt in terms of dealing with policy, regulatory challenges'

IT rules draft to be back with revisions: Impact on social media explained

A year after releasing IT Rules 2021, the govt proposed a clutch of changes in it. While we await the revised version, find out what the original draft proposed and its impact on social media giants

Why new CERT-In rules will be game changer in India's cyber security space

Experts believe that though the rules are very broad in nature, this is the first time that a mechanism is being put in India that makes reporting cyber incidents mandatory

SC stays proceedings before HCs in matters involving challenges to IT Rules

Supreme Court stayed further proceedings before high courts in matters involving challenges to IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021

Ola fracas reveals data privacy conundrum in electric vehicle industry

Questions are being raised on ola as to what extent can these new-age automobiles track user data and to what ends can they be utilised

No proposal under consideration to take back IT Rules 2021: MoS IT

The rules provide for a time-bound and robust grievance redressal mechanism

Govt blocked 1,311 web links under IT Act in 2022: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Of these, 1,264 links were blocked by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) and 47 links by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in the current year

Govt bans 20 YouTube channels, two websites under new IT rules

The Youtube channels and the websites were allegedly running anti-India content from Pakistan.

Most of those arrested under IT Act between 18 and 30, shows data

The IT Act has been the subject of heated discussion on a variety of issues, including the liability of big technology firms

Over 700 cases registered under IT Act in 2020 for privacy violation

More than 700 cases were registered in 2020 for violation of privacy under Section 66E of the Information Technology Act, 2000, Parliament was informed on Friday

Tighter rules likely for social media firms, may supersede IT laws: Experts

Players stand to lose safe harbour provisions that protect them from third party content; platforms that do not act as intermediaries may be treated as publishers, held accountable for hosted content

Rajasthan govt imposes Rs 27 lakh fine on Vodafone in data leak case

In its first case it has heard and dealt with under the IT Act 2000, the Rajasthan government on Monday imposed a fine of Rs 27 lakh on telecom company Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) on a data leak matter

Top headlines: HC notice to Centre on IT Rules; Delhi schools to re-open

Business Standard brings you the top headlines on Friday

HC stays some provisions of Code of Ethics of IT Rules for digital media

Bombay High Court granted an interim stay to the operation of clauses 9 (1) and 9 (3) of the new Information Technology Rules, 2021, for digital media pertaining to adherence to a Code of Ethics.

Twitter in compliance with IT Rules with permanent officers in place: govt

The new appointees are employees of Twitter Inc and not its India arm, and will report to the US office directly

Cases under quashed section of IT Act: SC issues notice to states, UTs

SC on Monday issued notices to all states, Union Territories and high courts on an NGO's plea that people are still being booked under Sec 66A of IT Act that was scrapped by apex court verdict in 2015

Proactively moderated 65,280 content pieces in July says Koo

Koo has proactively moderated 65,280 content pieces, while 3,431 posts were reported by its users during July, the homegrown company said in its monthly compliance report as mandated by the IT rules. The new IT rules require large digital platforms - with over 5 million users - to publish monthly compliance reports, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken thereon, as well details around proactively moderated content. In a statement on Monday, Koo said it took steps to proactively moderate 65,280 posts, of which 2.9 per cent (1,887) were removed while 'other action' was taken against the balance 63,393. Other action' includes overlay, blur, ignore, warn, etc., related to Koos that do not comply with GoI guidelines, it added. The report for July 2021 shows that of the 3,431 Koos reported by the community (users), wherein 14.5 per cent (498) were removed, while other action' was taken against the rest 2,933, it said. The volume of proactively moderated content